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Charge recovery logic as a side channel attack countermeasure

Moradi, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2009.4810376
  3. Publisher: 2009
  4. Abstract:
  5. Basically, charge recovery logic styles have been devised for low-power purposes. However, they have some other characteristics such as inherent pipelining mechanism, low data-dependent power consumption, and low electromagnetic radiations which are usually neglected by researchers. These properties can be useful in other application areas such as side channel attack resistant cryptographic hardware. This paper addresses these properties of charge recovery logics and examines a common one, called 2N-2N2P, as a side channel attack countermeasure by information theoretic evaluation metrics. The observed results show that the usage of this logic style leads to improve DPA-resistance as well as energy saving. Moreover, The behavior of supply currents in simulations reveals that electromagnetic emanation seems to be feeble, compared to other cell level DPA countermeasures. ©2009 IEEE
  6. Keywords:
  7. Cell levels ; Charge recovery logic ; Countermeasure ; Cryptographic hardware ; DPA ; Electromagnetic emanation ; Electromagnetic radiation ; Energy saving ; Evaluation metrics ; Logic style ; Low power ; Other applications ; Power consumption ; Side channel attack ; Supply currents ; Information theory ; Electron optics
  8. Source: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2009, 16 March 2009 through 18 March 2009, San Jose, CA ; 2009 , Pages 686-691 ; 9781424429530 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4810376